Setting up your .Clothing File

First, you'll need a fully set up .Clothing file. This is where we store our VMDLs and certain logic so your clothing works correctly.

Breakdown

Right click in your folder - New / Citizen / Clothing Definition

Add your Vmdls, original Citizen model goes in 'Model'. Standard male human version goes in Human Alt Model and your Female human variation goes in the Human Alt Female Model.

Give your Clothing a suitable name and description. In this example, we're making a Hat, so we set the category to Hat and we type "Hats" for the Sub Category. So it'll show up correctly in the character menu.

In Icon, we can generate a thumbnail for our .clothing file. Since we're making a hat, we want the Mode set to Head, which will orient the camera on the head. Save Icon to Disk to generate and save your clothing Icon.

We also want to set our Body Slots, for a Hat like a baseball cap that only covers to the top of the Head, we'd want to set it to Slots Under - HeadTop.

Quick Guide to Body Slots

Here's some examples of clothing and their body slots.

Slots Under is where shirts, trousers and shoes go, (Layer 1). Anything that fits over that would be Slots Over. This doesn't remove the Layer 1 clothing when selected, which would be for open jackets or vests; treat it as your Layer 2.

As an example, you can see that the Shirt has Chest, LeftArm, RightArm selected in Slots Under.

To pair a jacket on top, the open Jacket (Open) has LeftArm, RightArm selected in Slots Over.

Though, if we have a jacket that sits on top of shirts, but completely covers the shirt as well as the whole torso bodygroup, we can use LeftArm, RightArm in Slots Over and Chest in Slots Under. Since Shirts have Chest selected in their Slots Under, this'll mean the shirt will be removed when selecting the closed Jacket since it's covering it completely.

Best bet is to follow the examples laid out above, if you're making a shirt, follow the Body Slots of the example.

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Publishing to sbox.game

Now let's publish our .Clothing file to sbox.game, where our clothing can be seen online.

Breakdown

Publish your .Clothing file, and go to Edit settings and Publish

A new window will pop up, where you can set the title of your asset. Now we'll want to Create a New Organisation, or an existing one you may want to use.

When clicking New Organisation, you will be taken to the s&box.game website. Here we can create a new organisation.

When creating a new organisation, you may have to restart s&box and open the publishing window again for it to appear in the Organisation Ident drop down.

Then you'll be able to add your organisation and press next to start Uploading files and publish. Though the clothing won't be public just yet.

Here we can edit the asset on s&box.game website, for any final changes.

Here we add our appropriate title and description as well as relevant tags, you will want to add more that are specific to the theme of your clothing, medieval metal armour.

Now, we can set the Publish State to Released and Save Changes. The asset will now be visible online.

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